肯尼迪总统就职演说.doc

肯尼迪总统就职演说
frida, januar 20, 1961 vie president johnson, mr. speaker, mr. hief justie, president eisenhoer, vie president nixon, president truman, reverend lerg, fello itizens, e observe toda not a vitor of part, but a elebration of freedom——smbolizing an end, as ell as a beginning——signifing reneal, as ell as hange. for i have sorn i before ou and almight god the same solemn oath our forebears l presribed nearl a entur and three quarters ago. the orld is ver different no. for man holds in his mortal hands the poer to abolish all forms of human povert and all forms of human life. and et the same revolutionar beliefs for hih our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe——the belief that the rights of man e not from the generosit of the state, but from the hand of god. e dare not forget toda that e are the heirs of that first revolution. let the ord go forth from this time and plae, to friend and foe alike, that the torh has been passed to a ne generation of amerians——born in this entur, tempered b ar, disiplined b a hard and bitter peae, proud of our anient heritage——and unilling to itness or permit the slo undoing of those human rights to hih this nation has alas been mitted, and to hih e are mitted toda at home and around the orld. let ever nation kno, hether it ishes us ell or ill, that e shall pa an prie, bear an burden, meet an hardship, support an friend, oppose